;yT imipcro i iiinr NORTH CAROLINA. SATURDAY, JULY 19,1890. irv THE RATIONAL DEMOCRAT. the Popular North Carolinian and thi Sub-Treasury, yatlonal Democrat. There is no safer counsellor in tin Democratic party than the distin guished Senator from North Caro lina, Zebulon B. Vafice. He is the idol of his people at home, for they have unlimited confidence in his wisdom. If his counsels had been listened to in 1860, wfe should have had no great Civil War—at least not then, for he declared boldly for the Union. But when the war cauieon lie went bravely with and, for the people whom he loved. Every honor the State of North Carolina could confer baa been given him almost without the asking; and so faithful has he been to every trust that he is now everywhere known as the peo ple’s friend. When, therefore, re cently, the farmers of the country, feelingas they justly do, that the laws of the land discriminate against them unjustly, organized themselves for self protection and began to look Around for a leader,; their eyes ‘ Saturally rested on Zeb Vance.1 To him they turned to introduce the Sub-Treasury bill, a measure - that seemed to promis the relief they So much needed. Mr. Vance intro duced it “by request.” This left ■him of course free to consider the Mil carefully on its merits and he did *o. ' the nleau time it was natural the farmers should look with favor on any preposition to put them . on equal footing with those for whose benefit they had been so King rob bed and plundered by the iniquitous legislation of the Republican party —the ntohey-kings and the protect ed manufacturers; So there has Ivon a mighty movement in favor tit theSub-Treasury bill, and farm ers, especially in the South, hhve been demanding of their representa tives pledges to support it. Of course these Representatives were anxious td do stf. They naturally desired to please their constituency. But when they examined it objectionable fea tures began to appear, going even to tbe vefy principle on which . the bill was founded, and so one after au bther leading men in the House and Senate came out and declared the bill to be unwise, inexpedient and inconsistent with the Constitution,, which every legislator is sworn to Support. Many of these gentlemen knew whell they gave their opinions that a majority of their constituencies fa-' vored the bill; but to their lasting Credit* be.it said, that not one single prominent Democrat of the House or Senate has hesitated, when called to give his opinions freely, even at the risk of defeating his re-election —all ot them against tne mu. oo Unanimously has this opinion luvu given even in the face of danger ,to themselves that the story has been put into print thatucaucus was held on the question by the ' Democrats in Congress. This is absolutely false, and as -silly as it is false. Detaocrats agree on this opinion just for the same reason that they alt stood together, whether from, the North, or South on the iniqui tous Federal Election bill that has . jilst passed the House and fought it as one inan, just as they all stood together now on the unjust tariff laws of the Republican party. The country is to be congratulated, on •; hs uiese ror tiie sake of a measure which cannot by any ■ possibility ever become law. In deed, there'ia not u prominent man ,in either party to-day in public life who has declared for the bill.. Certainly t he Democracy never can advocate it without sacrificing that spirit of devotion and love for the Constitution which holds theta to gether to-day as a Wild of brothers from the North, South. East and .West, battling against unjust taxa tion, against Federal election laws, and for the autonomy of the State forever., Most assuredly the Demo cratic fanners of America, when they , look this question squarely in the face, will conclude that the class leg islation of which they now so justly complain cannot be remedied by oth er legislation just as objectionable and even more palpably in viola tion of the Constitution. The true remedy is to be found in those ideas for which Democrats contend. And the lines on which the battle for the increase of the currency and the reduction of taxation are to-be fought lie straight before us. The battle is to be between the Democra cy on the one side' arid the Republi can party on the other. The Re publicans favor the issue. They are seeking to strengthen themselves in position by Federal election laws and every other possible legislative de vidfe; The Democracy needs, in this light all the experience, all the abili tyjt can master. This is no time 1 for briuging untried material to the front; There hits been danger that the quarrel in Democratic ranks over the Sub-'ffeasury scheme would deprive their party in. the House of some of those whose services are indispensa- j ble in an hour like this, But the! "National Democrat hopes that this danger is fast passing away. Sure ly the true Democrats of the coun try in face of the overwhelming tes timony as to the impracticability and uneonstitutionality of the Sub Ti'casury scheme will not permit themselves to be driven away from the-support of those, whom they have heretofore trusted, simply be cause these leaders have had the courage of their, convictions. They ought rather to be honored for-their fidelity to trust. The letter of Sen ator Vance will go a long way to convince many who have heretofore favored the Sub-Treasury scheme that it is thoroughly impracticable. Many will reluctantly come to this conclusion—-noiio perhaps more re luctantly than the Senator himself, yet that is the conclusion he has ar rived at. To those Republicans who have entered Democratic alliances with the intent' to break up the Demo cratic party, Senator Vance’s rea soning will not be satisfactory,- nor can any amount of Democratic au thority be sufficient to-convince men who for their own political ad vancement are making use .of the present discount among the farmers. Neither can any argument whatever be successfully addressed.: to those who are now profiting pecuniarily by advocating the Sub-Treasury; scheme. It is not to be exjrmlud that they will relinquish their prof its. But the Democratic farmers of the country will think for themselves they will weigh the arguments pre sented by such men as Senator Vance, Carlisle, Coke and other trusted leaders, and when they do there need be no fear for the in tegrity of the Democratic party, al ways the truesjt and best friend of the people. A Spilt in, the Convention. The Gveensbdro Patriot of Friday says: Last Saturday the Republicans tried to hold a convention at Dob sou in Surry county. On count ing noses, the anti-Brower men were found to be in the majority and the covention was postponed. On Monday, the Brower moir being in the majority, concluded to have the • convention. L- 3: Norman was made chairman, very soon S. M. Holton, who is anti-Brower to the’core raised a racket and the fun began; The chairman knocked Holton down with » oh air and the roeetwig,adjourned sine die. * HcNtTY M. STANLEY MARRIED. Wedded to Miss Tennant in London Yesterday. London, July 13. -The marriage o£ Henry M. Stanley and Miss Dor othy Tennant took place to-day in Westminster Abbey. Mr. Stanley showed the effects? of the illness by which he was attacked yesterday, and he was compelled to use a stick to assist him in walking to and ftom tlie altar. The abbey was crowded with friends of the bride and groom. Early in the day crowds had col lected in the vicinity of Westmin ster Abbey, and at the residences of the bride arid groom and the "eontj gous streets were blocked with a Surging mass of humanity. At 1 45 p. m., the members of Miss Tennant's family. Mr. Gladstone, Baroness Burdett (Joints and hus band. Sir Win. McKinnon end Sir John Kirke, tlie African, traveller, entered the building. As the hands of the clock indicated the hours of 1:55 p. in., Mr. Stanley, looking ill and nervous, and leaning upon the arm of his best man, Count Do Ar. ocla,. the represent alive of King Leo. pold, of Belgium, entered the door. Mr. Stanley walked with so much ditiieulty that lie reciuired the assis tanee of a cane in addition to the support of the Count’s ami. Re was closely followed by a a umbel of his late African comrades. The bride was attired in a mag nificent toilet, of white corded silk, entrain, with the traditional veil and orange blossoms, fas tended with diamonds. She also wore the mag nificent diamonds presented to her by Mr. Stanley, as well as the neck lace, with miniature pendant pre sented to her by Queen Victoria. "Miss Tennant wris extremely nervous and tremulous during the ceremony. Contrary to expec tation, in view of Mr. Stanley’s ill ness, the choral service was carried out in full, and the bridegroom re maining seated through the greater part of the time, while the bride stood by his side. The marriage ceremony was sol emnized by the Bishop of Ripcm. assisted bv the Dean or Westinin- i stcr and Canon Farrar. The bride j was given away by her brother, Mr. | Charles doom be Tennant. j Reed Ready to Adjourn. At>w York Sut*. The Hou. Thonms Brackett Reed must be about ready to adjourn him self. The work that he cut for the House has been mostly done, and unless the silver men break away, it lias all been done to his satisfac tion and in accordance with his specifications. Mr. Reed has hid a very lively session, and he must begin to long for the breezes of Portland Bay. His record as a House of Representatives entitles him to a vacation. He can look back on him self' with considerable pride and self congratulation. He has -changed tlio House .rules so that the minor ty have no rights. He has uuseated Democrats in quantities to suit. He has admitted two Republican Terri ries into the Union. He has passed a tariff bill which nohody in partic ular seems to want, and which ma ny of the men who were made to vote for it didn’t want. He has scotched free silver coinage, al though the West, the South, and at least part of the East, want free sil ver coinage. He has driven through the House a bayonet-bill, which Southern Republicans do not want and matfy Northern Republicans are afraid of. - This is a big record. What makes it more remarkable is that Mr. Reed, lias be'e,p able to Jiold together all tne- Republicans in the House 'to policies of whose wisdom many of them are known to lie doubtful. He has made them do things they would not-and he tuiskejTt them from doing the things they would. In some in stances, as in the case of some of ttie Western members on'the, Sen ute-amendments to the silver bill, lurhtis actually forced Itepresenta into voting against ther otfru | interests and the known wishes .of t constituents. There could be o;o stronger proof oFhis pdwer. “It is easy enough for a 'Congressinaubto oty for a big job like the dependent pension bill. Iff may not approve the policy of it., but he'thinks... Jth&fc, it will get him. votes. When, how ever, Congressmen can be forced iff, ■ to voting for a measure which their constituents do not approve, the commanding quality of the master of the House is shown in its highest; form. We have instanced as a proof mine of the \v esteru .Republicans on the tariff bill. The vote of the Minnesota members on the tariff bill is another proof. The compar ative meekness with vvnich meni hois have consented to flie shelving o£jbills for public buildings in their districts is another evidence. It is .wonderful that there has not been a mutiny. Mr. Reed has been the absolute sovereign of the Republi ctfns.' If the other Republican members had been .mutes, merely approving in dump show his edicts, their part in the House would have been no less insignificant!, than it. has been. A BANKRUPT TREASURY! The Surplus Gone and a Deficit of $130,000,000 in Prospect. Washington, July 1*—The Treasury is bankrupt! This, with out exaggeration, is the condition of affairs resulting from undiilnted Republican government and Reed rules. On the 3rd of July last Sen ator Edmunds offered a resolution directing the Committee on Appro priations to report to the Senate the gross amounts appropriated by the several appropriation bills passed or pending. As mentioned at the time it was anticipated that the response to this resolution would make inter esting reading. Chairman Allison of the appro priations Committee promised that the information should be ready by the following Monday. It was ready, but the purport was so full of significance that after consulta tion with the party leaders, he per suaded Mr. Edmunds not'to press for an immediate response to his reso lution at least not until the Sundry Civil bill, then pending, had 'been gotten out of idle way. The statement, prepared in accor dance with the Edmunds resolution indicates a probable deficit of nearly SI30,000,000 for the coining fiscal year, including §50,000 possible re duction of revenue by the passage of the McKinley Tariff bill. The appropriations already passed and approved by the President are as follows: Army, §24,200,171 ; Legislature and Executive. §21,158,330; Milita ry Academy, §135,290; Navy, §23, 126,035; pensions, §08,457,461; Postottice, §72,226,698; total, §239.- 1 619,801. j The pending appropriations which have passed “‘one “ or" both houses are: Fortifications, $7, 595,000; District of Columbia, $5, 096,000; rivers and harbors, $28, 0(52,000; deficiency bills, $31,500, 000; diplomatic and consular, $1, 710,815; agricultural, $1,799,100; sltndry civil, $31,241,080; Indian (as passed House), $0,022,038; 'total bills passed, $348,911,124. To these have to be added miscellaneous ap propriations, $5,000,000; further deficiencies, $0,000,000; Impendent Pension bill, $45,000,000: a‘'hand some total of $105,800,2351 This does llot take into considera tion the Federal Election bill, which if passed, will cost about $10,000, 900. The Subsidy bills, which will cost at least $5,000,000, and whatev er reduction may arise from the tar iff bill, if that should become a law. The reduction by*this bill, accord ing to Mr. McKinley, the author of it, will be $65.,000,000. ; » Putting it atonly $50,000,000, as amended by the Senate, makes - a further drain on the revenue equiv alent to $05,000,000. This makes the total withdrawn from the Treas ury by the pending or passed ; bills $579,211,859. Adding sinking fund under existing law, $101,000, 000 gives; a grand total of $080,211,850, Estimated' revenue for the year 1891, $150,414,337. Net deficiency as far us - hoard from, $130,797,022! A PENSION HALT CALLED. The Leading Republican Organ Pro claims it. ; New i'ork Tribune. , • i f the entire population is0(5,000,-; 000 about one person in eighty eight of the population receives a I*u.-sidri7and the amount so appro priated is about $224 for every per son on the rolls this year. Out of all the money raised by customers, in ternal taxes and miscellaneous re ceipts for the benefit of all the peo ple, nearly half is paid over to one eighty-eighth of the people, and lit tle more than one half is expended for all other national purposes. Yet there are further bills proposed, and clamorously urged by pension agents which would take-out of the Treas ury about £2,000,000 more. The 1 ribtine thinks it time to say that this is going too far. The measure of proper expenditure for this purpose has he**u reached, if in deed it lia3 not been passed already. While any part of those who saved the nation from destruction were subjoet to .want, or their widows, children or helpless parents, there was an honorable feeling that 'they should be remembered by a power- ! ful and prosperous people, even though in the attempt . to do so \ avenues should unavoidably be open-j ed for extensive fradus. Hut the people will certainly stop somewhere, / and then, if appropriations for this' object seem to them excessive or frauds too numerous, there may be a flat refusal to continue the appro priations they have already made, lie is not the true friend of the sold ier, in the deliberate judgement of the T, ibune, who now asks for fur ther appropriations in his behalf. The youngest of those who served in the Union army must to-day bo about 47 years of age. . Only one eighth of those living at any time! exceed that age, so that of the 7,000, IK)0,000 male adults who were living when the war closed not more than 000,000 are living now, and over a1 third of these are Southerners. A voting population of 12,000,000 will not long consent to pay more than half the entire revenues of the gov ernment te a twentieth of their number. Further appropriations for pensions cannot be asked with-I out imperilling the continuance of all grants for that object. , I An interesting View of the the Politi cal Situation. Xetv York lieraUl. The Republican party once stood for freedom, and on those lines it aroused the conscience of the coun try, fought a historical battle and won a splendid victory. Since the days of slavery, howev er it has Tived on the reputation of its ancestry, like the last degenerate scion of a once noble family. Of late it has been working the theory of protection for all it is worth. But the people are discov ering that the more protection they" get the worst off they are. i The. McKinley bill so far out dares all other daring of the same sort that it may be fitly described as the protective theory in a fit of deli rium tremens. Like a “honeysuck le villain,” it promises wealth and brings brankruptcy. , It does not represent the greatest good of the greatest number, but the greatest good of the Republican party. In the last analysis’it hr taxation to the very verge of rob bery in the . interest of a favored class. As a popular measure, there fore, it is either a blunder or a crime or possibly both.. . . - Mr. Blaine declares openly that the bill indicates b.id generalship and hints that if it is forced through: Congress the • Republicans may as well buy a magniScent tombstone and make ready for a first-class fu neral. He boldly asserts that the country won’t stand it—another' way of ^saying that in .1802 the the people will ring out the Mattered ahd tattered- party of plunder, and riug'in the healthier policy of the Democrats. :. _• , lie even uses stronger language . . • t ■ ■ . ' - - A ' V ...» - concerning the Federal el-c'ion Dill. - It. is n measure. whose ultimate effect will he to rill IhejSonth with pen ncell- havoc, a• \■:i confusion.” Its passage would be the most omin ous incident in tlie history, of our times. - The South is just begin ing to pull itself together. Northern, cap ital a»d Southern enterprise are working shoulder to shoulder to develop the .whole sec tion below the Ohio ‘river. The bill will hit both the capital and the enterprise a stinging, "pos sibly a fatal, blcrw. Money is nat urally shy of risky investments. Large dividends fail to allure when uncertainty prevails as to the prin cipal. The Federal election bill proposes practically, to wrest political, con trol from the hands of responsible landowners, merchants and manu facturers andigive it to an irrespon sible class Who have nothing to lose and everything to gain. It banishes the whites to the background and brings the colored people to the .front as the arbiters, of fate. It is noped thereby to add anoth er lease of life to the Republican Party. That is to say, the leaders dfjthe party stand ready to sacrifice the industrial prospects to of the whole South in order to assure them selves a continued hold on the emol uments and perquisites of officel Mr. Blaine has taken a strong stand in opposition to both of these measures. He has no sympathy with the reckless audaqity of his party, and is too conservative to dabble with revolutionary methods in order to gain a temporary advan tage. He is therefore roundly denounced, aud it is even hinted that he will be forced to resign. A resignation under such circumstances would be the most creditable, act of his pub lic life. He is willing either to follow or lead his party to larger national prosperity, but when he sees it rush ing headlong into irretrievable folly he refuses to share its fate. He has dared to .exhibit some common souse on matters wliielT' involve .the welfare of sixty-five millions of people, and his fellow Republicans regard that, as an un pardonable sin. V*' hen a Second Adventist told Emerson that the world was com ing to an end the quiet transcend ental ist replied,-“I think we shall get on quite as well without it." If the Republicans inaugurate any more measures like the McKin ley and the Federal election bills the same rumor will Iks afloat con cerning their party and the general verdict Will bo. We can get on quite as well without it. “W s’’ Views on the Situation. There are i Uree hundred lawyers in Congress, and fourteen fanners. Out of about 14 good paying, offices in the gift of the State theTawyers. have at leasts 40 of them. It is true 30 of them are l>y reason of their profession. They have S of the if members of Congress I believe, at any rate the farmers have only one. There are about 300,000 voters in N. C. There are not more than 1000 practicing lawyer voters, yet aceor lipg the Express there is no place for a lawyer now in politics Please show me a prominent lawyer who is not in office or in politics or breaking His neck to get in. There is one farmer in the “shoe string” district brought out by -Ilia friends, and Jdiere is at least one lawyer for iycry: County ill Ehc district, all brought out to defeat that farmer.' But not satisfied with what's they l»avb. got, they want to take theon ly farmer we have from us and put a young lawyer without experience in his place, and you an1 very much mistaken when you assert that every farmer mdmils his ( Aycoefc’s) supe rior ability to the other candidates; McClain my is his superior in some respects, his peer in- every thing ex ! perhaps stringing out fine words ... ! to please the people. , The only time I heard him ho made a dead failure in defending Judge Shepherd. They say he made some'good speeches on the tariff. There are several lawyers’ . m every county can do that. Col. Green is a man of much more in* fluence, weight ami ability and wilt- -•<* make a good member should he get | the nomination. . Now where does that “insane pre judice” come in P it seems to me it is on the other boat entirely. I am afraid the papers and political bosses are so prejudice themselves, that they cannot look on a poor farmer without seeing prejudice written ajl over him. Are the farmers dogs to 1;f be kicked1 arid cuffed at will by every one, and yet expected to fawn upon and lick the hands of their oppres- h sors whenever presented tathem. ’ 1 am glad to see that Senator Vance endorses the sub-Treasury plan, that is its principles and pur poses, although he cannot vote for — the bill in its present shape. Dr. McCune in his very able, fair and conservative address’before the Sen ate ana House committees said my farmer or Alliance expected the bill to pass in its present shape nor was. the order which he represented par ticularly wedded to the bill, but • they needed and expected relief along that line, they did not want any thing if it was unconstitutional, unjust or class legislation. No man can thoroughly understand the plan who hits not read Dr. Macune’s very able and interesting discussion of the plan, its purposes, aims, &c. Vance says to us ”hold your forces in hand ready to aid those who favor you, and strike those only who are hosti|ftdo your purposes and princi ples. Re careful not to injure your* triends, don t make a political party of the alliance.” Good advice! We have been sending lavCyers to Congress for a long tifne. We have planted and sown a big crop of lawyers, and what have.we reap ed' We have reaped chiefly debts, mortgages, scarce high-priced mon ey, low-priced products and labor. All fixed salaries, including our members of Congress have been vir tually increased by class legislation nearly they-fold, while the price of products of all labor have been de creased in nearly the same ratio. Mills, Canise, Oats and the most of them have been voting for more or less legislation of this kind, ben efitting, banks, bondholders, whis key and railroads, army and navy, public buildings, canals, rivers, &c., &c., to the end, thereby scattering the hard-earned money of the half starved tax-payers everywhere, for every purpose except for the benefit of the agricultural interest. After looking into this matter as sensible business men wo ask onr members for relief. What is the answer? Altogether they cry out unconstitu tional. They have voted for or sub mitted to all the unconstitutional measures that are oppressing and well nigh mining us, but have nothing to offer us, but submission . ’ to our fate. In other words it is right to do wrong to op press us, but not right to do wroug to relieve us. We want a change in this business. We do nut intend to desert the “sub-TrcaSury” plan till——r something better is offered. We must and will have relief if every .member of Congress is ousted._^_ “W." Is That His Position To-day? Wilmington Mes»e-nger. .... . Little Benny, when in the Sen ate,"made a speech in 1880, when he showed more sense than he has been % able to display ns President. He evidently had no use then for Fed- . eral election laws, and we hope he has no use for them now. He said: ‘ I have looked hopefully in the old times to the forcible interven-. tion of the general Government in their defense. I have thought that it might be possible, under that stringent legislation which Con gress adopted by the forcible inter vention of the Federal authority,, to protect them in their rights of which they were so crRelly deprived. But I have ceased to have faith in the possibility of that intervention m their behalf, constituted as this gov eminent is, with its complex organ igatioH o( Federal and State govern ments, independent within certain limitations.” | He ought-to\vhisper in FatTorn'* ear, and tell him that be is carry ing the rotten old ship right down to “the detanition bow-wows." i